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Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned: ‘Most boomers don’t know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week and still not be able to afford a house’ (fortune.com)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Please stop falling for efforts to divide the working class.

Amy such efforts should immediately be viewed as suspicious. The divide is not old vs young, or white vs black, or even rich vs poor. It is the capital class versus the labor class.

Boomers grew up in a very tiny slice of global history where the working class actually got improvements in their material conditions, so it is hard for them to understand the struggles of people before or after... but they are being ground down by capitalism the same as the rest of us.

Your comrades at work may not understand the importance of unions or collective action, but they are still your comrades. Your grandmother may not realize that all of her extra productivity went to make billionaires richer, but she is still your comrade.

[–] Coreidan 3 points 31 minutes ago (1 children)

or even rich vs poor. It is the capital class versus the labor class

Just another fancy way of saying rich vs poor. The difference is the poors don’t realize they are in a war.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago

Watch out the propaganda of government and ruling class trying to divide the public and turn people against each others. Boomers are idiots but owning a house is peanuts compared to billionares expenses or the money being spent on military weapons.

[–] MITM0 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I despise most of the boomers

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I bought a lawnmower from someone online and went to pick it up. The lady was a turbo hoarder in her late 60's she was smoking and smelled like a brewery. Her home was DISGUSTING. And i mean rat shit on the countertop. The only reason i was in her house was because there was so much shit around her house that the only way into her backyard was through the house. If you haven't seen it, you can not understand how bizzare it was to carry a lawnmower through a hoarder house, when she had technically a big yard around.

I just wanted to get the fuck out of here when she said: a lot of people wanted the lawnmower, but she doesn't sell it to anyone (she mant she didn't sell it to immigrants). And: "no offence to you, but your generation is absolutely useless." It was like some weird snl sketch

[–] woodenskewer 1 points 32 minutes ago

I probably would have just not bought that specific lawnmower and kept using my shitty one.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Among all my friends, there are two clear common denominators between those who rent and those who own houses. The ones renting have office jobs and live in the capital, while the ones who own houses live in smaller cities or the countryside and work in manual labor.

I’m not saying correlation is causation, but it’s an interesting observation - and so far, it applies to 100% of my friends.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Or have office jobs and commute a bit longer.

People say I'm crazy for commuting 1,5 hours (one way). But I get to go home to my own property. Especially now with hybrid working still being a thing, I only go to the office once or twice a week.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

I must agree with the people saying you're crazy for having that long commute. That's over a month spent getting to and from work every year. Time is the most valuable asset in the entire world. By working we're trading time for money but for the time spent commuting you're not even getting paid. I would seriously consider trying to find an alternative solution to this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm located in The Netherlands, the housing market here is fucked. An alternative solution would be to find something to rent closer to work, but I would pay 1,5 times as much in rent, for a small apartment in a neighborhood where I don't want to live. Yes, I'm spending more time on my commute, but I also have more disposable income each month that I can save and invest. If all goes to plan, I can retire earlier and live mortgage free within 20 years. In essence, I'm trading a bit of time now, to have more spare time and a better financial position in the near future. I'm taking it.

[–] notsoshaihulud 0 points 54 minutes ago

ted to get the fuck out of here when she said: a lot of people wanted the lawnmower, but she doesn’t sell it to anyone (she mant she didn’t sell it to immigrants). And: “no offence to you, but your generation

do you drive, or take public transport? Americans will assume you drive, and then it is a pure waste of time. On the other hand, spending 3 hours on a train, one can sleep, work, watch a movie, read, whatever.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

If they go to the office twice a week with an hour and a half commute each way that's six hours a week driving. So 52 weeks a year that's 312 hours or 13 days. Still not great but my commute is about 30min one way. I work five days a week so five hours a week, which would still be about 10 2/3 days a year. They also said they only have to commute once OR twice a week so they still probably drive less then the 13 days a year.

I'm just saying, sounds like a good deal

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Well that should be easy to fix. Just have a world war with a general draft and all for about 5 years. Then another one soon after in an arbitrary place. That sort of thing really brings people together, and also kills many of them, all contributing to a healthy housing market!